6 Successful Blogging Tips & Tricks – This Is EXACTLY What You’ll Discover In Your 1st Year Of Blogging…

Hey, everybody, it’s Adventago here, now this blog is a little more personal than my other posts, however, I will still show you a lot of valuable things.

It’s been a little over a year since I started my website, so today, I want to share some of the things that I’ve learned in my 1 year of blogging that will hopefully speed things up for you, knowing them in advance.

Let’s get into this!!!

The first one that I want to share with you is…

1. It’s Very Important To Add Your Personality To What You’re Doing.

A lot of what I teach is very strategic, it’s how to do the search analysis, write these low competition terms, and then you’ll get the traffic by writing in this post format, what tools to use in WordPress, and what copywriting headlines give you the best click-through rate (CTR).

But if you don’t add any of your personality into it, later on, it’s going to be almost impossible to sell an info product, start a membership site, and monetize it.

Not saying you can’t do it, but it will be a lot harder, so set yourself up to be able to do that kind of stuff by adding personality.

Now, don’t do it overtly, don’t make a travel vlog, but look, in the bio of my social media, you get to learn one new thing about me and my company.

For example, I was very upset with my life back in the day, I got mentored by Dan Lok, I love entrepreneurship, I love reading books, my first business was online, I’m still writing my legacy, my family can be very annoying, and I love helping others through blogging.

You see? Just little things that I try to slowly insert in my blog posts so that you can get to know me, but it’s never overt, it never overrides the content.

Now, I’ll share the next important lesson with you …

2. There Are Things About Building An Online Business That Are Going To Be A Grind For You, And That You’re Going Hate.

You may get 3 months into this and realize you don’t like writing blog posts.

You may get a little bit into this and realize that the technical aspect of building the site, or the design of the website is something you don’t enjoy doing at all, and it’s just a grind every time you have to sit down and do it.

That’s normal when building a business or when doing anything, and so the goal needs to be, and a really good rule of thumb is, to keep the work that’s a grind for you to only about 10% of the work you do.

I sometimes talk about the best platforms for making a website, if you’re blogging or YouTube or Podcast or social media or whatever that you’re using to build your platform and that you’re going to monetize.

Yes, some are more optimized and have more benefits than others.

But if you just love a podcast and you know it would not be a grind at all to do 90% of the work there.

There’s nothing wrong with choosing that pathway because we can keep the grind part to 10%.

And now we just have to be really smart about discovery and getting our message out there to overcome the problems.

The thing is though, if you just hate writing, don’t become a writer for your job, how is that going to be any better than you and your job cubicle? You’re still going to hate your job.

3. About Your Niche

The same thing is true, not just with the type of work that you’re doing, but with the subject of the website or of whatever you’re creating with the subject itself.

If you pick a niche, or a topic, or an industry, that you’re not at all interested in, it’s going to be really hard no matter what pathway you choose to be able to enjoy 90% of the work.

If I rush what I do, just so I can get the work done, I end up creating really quick but crappy content.

That’s only half the work, since I spent half the time, I’m probably going to get 0% of the result.

And so, you could find yourself writing a bunch of blog content that actually gets you absolutely no benefit.

A good example would be, if you went to go start running a race, but the race is on ice, and you just start running all out as fast as you can, but you don’t move anywhere, there’s a lot of motion, but no progress.

And so, a better way to approach this is to think of yourself as a teacher, we’ve all had that teacher who just lectures at us, they get the job done, they teach the material, but how much learning is actually taking place?

But on the other hand, we’ve also probably all had that teacher who somehow, the way that they teach, the way they’ve thought about it, the way they present the material, we learn the material and we enjoy learning it.

Focus on being that teacher and if you approach your content that way, it doesn’t have to take a lot more time to present it in a better way, it just takes a better way.

Maybe it takes researching the topic and immersing yourself in it outside of the time you spend creating content, so that you’re more immersed and know the topic better.

It may take thinking about creative ways to present the content in a way that will be more helpful for the person that you’re teaching the content to.

Whatever it is, don’t get so far in the process of trying to create as much content as you can, as quickly as you can, that you end up creating a whole bunch of content that had zero value.

The next thing that I would tell you is hard for most blog owners is…

4. Learning Search Analysis

This is picking the topics for your articles that will do well on Google, now, I have an extensive amount of free training on my blog, showing you the exact way to successfully do this.

But it’s still something that you need to get a flavor for, it’s something that even if you understand the technical process, you have to know what things will work.

The best advice I could give you to do better at search analysis and to give your whole site a much better chance of succeeding is to go and look at successful blogs.

This will help you get an idea of just what type of content people are looking for and what works to get traffic to these sites.

5. Hard Skills

You’re also going to have to learn a lot of hard skills when you’re doing this kind of business.

I don’t mean difficult skills, I mean just like physical skills, things you have to learn how to do, and some of those skills may end up being kind of a grind for you.

So, as you learn these skills, first of all, it’s very important that you do learn them yourself before you ever consider outsourcing a single one of them.

But also, when it is time to outsource, you’re going to be able to pick the ones that are a grind.

And so, as I talk about those hard skills, there’s things like obviously writing, there’s things like research, there’s things like recording video and video editing, maybe the audio stuff, maybe the design stuff.

Don’t try to learn all the skills at the same time, that’s a really key important lesson here, when you first create your website, focus on creating good content.

Not on graphic design, don’t try to learn Photoshop, go out when it’s time to start creating thumbnails for your articles.

Don’t go get Photoshop, go use Canva…

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When you’re ready to learn more and have the bandwidth to do it, great, go learn Photoshop.

Eventually, if you’re doing this as your full-time job, you’re going to want to be pretty decent at graphic design.

Because I use it every single day, a little graphic for a blog post or a YouTube thumbnail or a little infographic.

You want to know that, and you’re going to want to know some basic HTML so that you can customize some CSS on a plug-in that didn’t format things very well.

You’re going to want to know how to edit video, you’re going to want to know how to fix WordPress.

There are so many hard skills, in your first year of blogging, that if you were to try and understand them all, you would never get started, go use a simple default theme, from WordPress and get started.

Even for advanced site owners, it just gets rid of problems for you, and the same thing with all those hard skills

Just skip them for now, and use a simpler solution, so that you can focus on the content today.

The next lesson that you just have to learn, and that nobody knows right off the bat, is that…

6. There Are More Available Topics On The Internet Than You Could Possibly Imagine.

When you’re picking your niche the first time, it feels like everything’s taken, it’s so hard to do.

But when you’re making your first one, you’re so focused on doing it perfectly, that it can feel like, “I’ll never be able to find something good.”

As soon as you have a website and you’re getting into this, you’re going to find yourself identifying niches everywhere, don’t get too hung up on it in the first place.

Recognize that you’re assessing competition in a way that’s probably not real and not realistic, give yourself a little bit of leeway, and spend some time doing that search analysis.

One of the best ways to make sure you don’t quit, which by the way, is by far the biggest reason people don’t succeed, is they quit.

One of the best ways to prevent yourself from doing that is to give yourself realistic expectations, make an agreement with yourself, maybe with a spouse, partner, or somebody.

Make an agreement on what needs to get done each day or each week, and then commit to doing that.

Everything else is, if it doesn’t get done, it doesn’t get done, that’s okay, if you commit to doing the things that have to get done, you’re going to get it done.

But, if you just carry the entire burden of what this website could be, or what this project could be someday.

You’re probably not going to get nearly as much work done as you thought you were getting done, and you’ll carry that stress and that burden with you all the time.

Also, consistently putting forth effort becomes easier once you’ve given up the delusion of going viral.

In the time I’ve been doing blogging, I’ve probably only had one blog post that I could truly say went viral with a few tens of thousands of views it was about: The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work by Vishen Lakhiani (Disclaimer: This was on LinkedIn not Adventago.com)

I’ve written a few that got a few ten thousand views, but all of the others were just sustained search traffic over the course of time.

Eventually, you learn that some things go bigger than others, but instead of shooting for this one moonshot of crazy viral content.

Instead, focus on sustained progress and sustained growth in how you’re building your content.

The quality is slowly improving, and you’re improving your pace of how you’re putting that content out there, now that’s a lot more important.

Instead of focusing on a moonshot, focus on sustained progress and the quality of your content.

Whoo! Covered a lot of ground there, so those are the 6 Successful Blogging Tips & Tricks – This Is EXACTLY What You’ll Discover In Your 1st Year Of Blogging…

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